Friday, March 02, 2007

Book list

In the list of books below:

old the ones you’ve read,italicize the ones you want to read (I'm not going to bother, because there will be many),underline the ones you won’t touch with a ten-foot pole (I can't un-underline it from a previous person... I don't have anything underlined),put a cross (+) in front of the ones on your book shelf,and asterisk (*) in front of the ones you’ve never heard of (this will be embarrassing... I think I have no culture).

1. The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown) -- I started this one but it wasn't mine and I had to leave the vicinity of the book. I'm guessing it'll be better than the movie was (really laaame...) but kinda still like a hoax.2. +Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen) - Really like this one.3. To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee)4. Gone With The Wind (Margaret Mitchell) - Kind of surprised I've never read this.5. +The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (Tolkien)6. +The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (Tolkien)7. +The Lord of the Rings: Two Towers (Tolkien)8. +Anne of Green Gables (L. M. Montgomery) - How many of these books, is the question? I'm sure I read like, the 10 "real ones" by LM Montgomery, and then some.9. Outlander (Diana Gabaldon)10. *A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry)11. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Rowling) - I just went through the whole list without bolding Harry Potter books, with my superior nose in the air... and then I remembered that I think I read 5 of them the summer I had mono. Don't remember them, but I must admit they got read.12. Angels and Demons (Dan Brown)13. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Rowling)14. *A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving)15. Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)16. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Rowling)17. Fall on Your Knees (Ann-Marie MacDonald)18. *The Stand (Stephen King)19. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban(Rowling)20. +Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)21. +The Hobbit (Tolkien) 22. The Catcher in the Rye (J. D. Salinger)23. +Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) 24. *The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold)25. Life of Pi (Yann Martel) 26. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)27. +Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)28. +The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe (C. S. Lewis)30. Tuesdays with Morrie (Mitch Albom)31. *Dune (Frank Herbert) 32. The Notebook (Nicholas Sparks) - Can't believe I really read this. I may be actually mixing it up with other Nicholas Sparks books... are they supposed to be different? Gotta say I loved the movie, of course.33. *Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)34. +1984 (Orwell)35. *The Mists of Avalon (Marion Zimmer Bradley)36. *The Pillars of the Earth (Ken Follett)37. *The Power of One (Bryce Courtenay)38. I Know This Much is True (Wally Lamb)39. *The Red Tent (Anita Diamant)40. The Alchemist (Paulo Coelho)41. *The Clan of the Cave Bear (Jean M. Auel)42. *The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)43. Confessions of a Shopaholic (Sophie Kinsella) 44. +The Five People You Meet In Heaven (Mitch Albom) - Got this as a gift as an English award in high school. It was interesting, but not outstanding I don't think.45. +Bible - Probably not completely all the way through. 46. Anna Karenina (Tolstoy) - Half of it.47. The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas) - Really good. Don't even bother watching the movie, especially afterwards.48. *Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt)49. The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)50. *She’s Come Undone (Wally Lamb)51. *The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)52. A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens)53. *Ender’s Game (Orson Scott Card)54. Great Expectations (Dickens)55. +The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald) - Yay first year English class.56. The Stone Angel (Margaret Laurence)57. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Rowling) -Wow there is a lot of Harry Potter on here.58. *The Thorn Birds (Colleen McCullough)59. The Handmaid’s Tale (Margaret Atwood)60. The Time Traveller’s Wife (Audrew Niffenegger)61. Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)62. *The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)63. War and Peace (Tolstoy)64. Interview with the Vampire (Anne Rice)65. *Fifth usiness (Robertson Davis)66. *One Hundred Years Of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez) 67. +The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants (Ann Brashares) - I own this book in French... I've only read about a third of it. Didn't have time to soldier on.68. +Catch-22 (Joseph Heller) - I bought this for Rich, at his request... and I've read it, and not him. I'd like to consider it part of my own collection, so I included a plus sign.69. Les Miserables (Hugo) 70. The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery) - I read Le Petit Prince, not the English version.71. Bridget Jones’ Diary (Fielding) -- this is the last book I read. Finished it last week.72. *Love in the Time of Cholera (Marquez)73. Shogun (James Clavell)74. *The English Patient (Michael Ondaatje) 75. The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett) 76. *The Summer Tree (Guy Gavriel Kay)77. *A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)78. *The World According To Garp (John Irving)79. The Diviners (Margaret Laurence)80. Charlotte’s Web (E.B. White)81. *Not Wanted On the Voyage (Timothy Findley)82. Of Mice And Men (Steinbeck)83. *Rebecca (Daphne DuMaurier)84. *Wizard’s First Rule (Terry Goodkind)85. +Emma (Jane Austen)86. Watership Down (Richard Adams)87. +Brave New World (Aldous Huxley) - I really liked this one. Pushed the envelope nicely.88. The Stone Diaries (Carol Shields)89. *Blindness (Jose Saramago)90. *Kane and Abel (Jeffrey Archer)91. *In The Skin Of A Lion (Ondaatje)92. +Lord of the Flies (Golding)93. *The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck)94. *The Secret Life of Bees (Sue Monk Kidd)95. The Bourne Identity (Robert Ludlum)96. The Outsiders (S. E. Hinton)97. White Oleander (Janet Fitch)98. *A Woman of Substance (Barbara Taylor Bradford)99. *The Celestine Prophecy (James Redfield)100. Ulysses (James Joyce)